From: Jeff Cohen <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T10:27:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshaling Decimal types from .NET

John Lam wrote:
> The only downside is that I have to convert the Decimal to a string 
> first
> before I can call BigDecimal's constructor, so this definitely impacts
> performance when marshaling Decimals across the interop boundary.
> 

I use decimal in C# for financial calculations, because we would get 
round-off errors if we used floats.

I wasn't aware of BigDecimal before - it's not part of the core in 1.82, 
is it?

Thanks
Jeff
www.softiesonrails.com



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